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Tawhidi is a Shia Muslim, and was born in Qom, Iran, to Iraqi parents, who emigrated to Australia with their family to escape persecution. [3]Mohammad Tawhidi is a Shia scholar of Iraqi descent and a third generation Imam.
Varma started his movement, and was inspired by B. R. Ambedkar and Jyotirao Phule.Varma stood against discrimination by upper castes. Eventually, he also established the Adi Hindu ("Original Hindu"), a social organization, to bring awareness to the Dalits.
In 1956, Anthony F. C. Wallace published a paper called "Revitalization Movements" [1] to describe how cultures change themselves. A revitalization movement is a "deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture" (p. 265), and Wallace describes at length the processes by which a revitalization movement takes place.
The non-Zionist ideas of the Pittsburgh Platform remained (and remain) controversial within the Reform movement, particularly for those who supported the movement. Every successive major platform of the UAHC (now the Union for Reform Judaism) backed off further from the ideas contained in the Pittsburgh platform. The Union's 1937 Columbus ...
The Human Reform League (人類革新連盟, Jinrui Kakushin Renmei, abbrev. 人革連 Jinkakuren, lit. Human Reform Alliance) is a supranational political-economic community consisting of several countries on the Asian continent which includes China, India, Russia and the ASEAN nations. It controls the second-completed of the three orbital ...
One of the areas of focus was in the upliftment of villages. In a booklet called Village Uplift, Periyar plead for rural reform. It should be stressed in this context that rural India still forms the largest part of the Indian subcontinent in spite of the ongoing process of urbanization. Thus, the distinction between rural and urban has meant ...
Started as a movement (iyakkam in Tamil; Dravida Iyakkam [6]) to promote rational behavior, [6] the Self-Respect Movement acquired much wider connotation within a short period of time. Periyar, speaking with M.K. Reddy at the First Self-Respect Conference held in 1929, explained the significance of self-respect and its principles.
Sahodaran Ayyapan's home at Cherai. K. Ayyappan was born on 21 August 1889, in Cherai, Vypin Island, in Ernakulam district of the present day south Indian state of Kerala in an aristrocatic Ezhava family of ayurvedic physicians to Kumabalathuparambil Kochavu Vaidyar and Unnooli, [1] as the youngest of their nine children.